Let’s skip the part where we pretend this is complicated. It isn’t.

When a child says they have been abused, the next step is not a forgiveness session. It is not a quiet meeting with church elders. It is not a spiritual conversation about bitterness, resentment, sin, or whether the victim has a forgiving heart.

It is a phone call to law enforcement or child protective services. Period. Got it?

ProPublica and the Minnesota Star Tribune recently published a disturbing investigation into the Old...

The next stage of American democracy cannot be built on revenge.

And...it cannot be built on pretending nothing happened. Accountability matters.

The future of the United States cannot be built by dragging the country back into the same cage fight that got us here: left versus right, socialism versus capitalism, liberty versus equality, markets versus government.

That fight is theatrical. It is profitable. It fills cable news hours and fundraising emails. But it does not build strong...

Accountability is often misunderstood. It is not punishment, not the healthy kind.

It can include consequences. It should include consequences when people violate trust, abuse power, lie, steal, exploit, endanger others, or keep breaking commitments after every reasonable opportunity to adjust.

But accountability itself is not the firing squad. It is not revenge in a leadership costume. It is not public humiliation. It is not the strong crushing the weak because they can.

That is not...